Letter from the ladies of New Bern to Joseph Caldwell, November
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University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from the ladies of New Bern to Joseph
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Letter from the ladies of New Bern to Joseph Caldwell, November 26, 1803
To the Reverend Joseph Caldwell, first Professor of the University of North
Carolina.
Sir,

Desirous to manifest our solicitude for the prosperity of the institution, over
which, you preside, with so much honour to yourself and advantage to the
Publick; we request you to accept, for the use of the Philosophical Class, a
quadrant, the best we could procure, but not the most valuable gift we could
wish to present.

Our sex can never be indifferent to the promotion of Science, connected, as it
is, with the virtues that impart civility to manners, and refinement to life.
Nor can we suppress the emotions of (we hope) an honest pride, at the
reflection, that our native country boasts a seminary where, by the proper
extension of Legislative patronage, it's ingenuous youth might be taught to
emulate the worth of their fathers; where, their minds might be enlightened with
knowledge, and their hearts impressed with a love of justice, morality, and
religion; where, they might learn to embellish the manly and patriotic
endowments which constitute strength of character,
and qualify men to cherish "the mountain nymph, sweet
liberty," with all the arts that polish, all the charities that
sweeten, the intercourse of social life.